Personal Care at Home - Response from London Councils

London as a region has specific social care needs, costs and pressures and therefore requires social care funding that reflects all of these factors. Any extra social care burdens that are created for a new social care system must ensure London as a region is adequately funded so it is able to continue to deliver high quality social care services for Londoners.

London boroughs in recent years have been able to contend with the huge financial pressures in social care funding placed upon them because they have striven for excellence in efficiencies and balance in social care placements for residential and home care.

We are concerned about the future funding of social care in London because of the combination of the future financial climate and increased social care demands. We ask the government to consider London boroughs' situation carefully so that extra social care burdens have adequate and appropriate funding to avoid London boroughs facing extreme financial risks.